Hard drive recovery help

[robodude666]

Actually, the company is itching for the data so much that they are willing to pay up to, or over, $1,000.

I'm trying the freezer trick again. Will let it sit for 5 hours and see what happens. I saw a couple of forums posts and articles where people were talking about the freezing fixing click problems. At least long enough to recover data.

[killswitch83]

got more balls than me man.....never tried replacing the control board on a HDD, always assumed it was either the platters, the read/write head, or the control chip(s) itself......well then, lol.

[robodude666]

this is very weird....

new drive + new board = work
new drive + old board = click

old drive + new board = click
old drive + old board = no click, but no detection

What does this mean? Why doesn't the drive with old board not click, but old drive with new board click?

I don't get it!!! The old drive with old board spins up perfectly fine with no problems but its not detected by window's disk management. I have it currently connected via USB on a A. R. Ryan AluBox enclosure.

[PackRat]

dude yer first post said the HDD was an sata drive. I'm assuming the drive you swapped boards with is an sata drive also. What operating system are you using? Also what operating system was the HDD yer trying to fix, formatted on?

[polobunny]

Are you sure the boards are the same? Doesn't mean because the hard drive is the same mode that the boards are the same. Check carefully for physical differences, and then for firmware version.

[robodude666]

Duh they are both SATA. The second drive is the same exact model.

The old board is 8.05 while new board is 8.12 firmware. Would that really make a difference? The pins line up fine though. It will be nearly impossible to find a 100% identical drive though. On eBay there was only this drive.